SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 6, Gartner released the Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025, positioning Huawei in the Leaders quadrant. This recognition is attributed to Huawei Cloud's deep expertise and strategic investments in Cloud Native 2.0. Huawei Cloud has been at the forefront, launching several innovative container products like CCE Turbo, CCE Autopilot, Cloud Container Instance (CCI), and the Ubiquitous Cloud-Native Service (UCS). These products provide the optimal cloud-native infrastructure for managing large-scale, scalable containerized workloads across public clouds, distributed clouds, hybrid clouds, and edge environments.
Huawei Cloud is competitive in all studied use cases, including new cloud-native applications, containerization of existing applications, AI containers, edge applications, and hybrid cloud applications, especially in the AI container domain.
Huawei Cloud is an active open-source contributor and a leader in the cloud-native technology ecosystem. Huawei Cloud has participated in 82 CNCF projects, holds over 20 project maintainer seats, and is the only Chinese cloud provider holding a vice-chair position on the CNCF TOC.
Huawei Cloud offers the most comprehensive container product matrix in the industry, covering public cloud, distributed cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge scenarios and has been extensively adopted globally.
Starzplay, an OTT platform in the Middle East, leveraged Huawei Cloud CCI to transition to a serverless architecture, enabling it to handle millions of access requests during 2024 Cricket World Cup while reducing resource costs by 20%.
Leading Singaporean logistics provider Ninja Van fully containerized services using Huawei Cloud CCE, ensuring zero interruptions during peak hours and improving order processing efficiency by 40%.
Chilquinta Energía, one of Chile's three major power companies, upgraded its big data platform to a cloud-native architecture using Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo, achieving 90% improvement in average performance and enabling more intelligent operations.
Nigeria's leading e-commerce platform Konga fully transitioned to a cloud-native architecture based on CCE Turbo, ensuring a smooth shopping experience for millions of monthly active users.
China's leading visual creation platform Meitu leverages CCE and Ascend cloud services to support the deployment and inference of various models and algorithms, ensuring rapid iteration of large-scale training and enabling 200 million monthly active users to share life moments in real time.
Huawei Cloud will continue to partner with global operators to advance cloud-native technology innovations and share successes.
Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management 2025, 6 August 2025
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Huawei Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Container Management
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ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IAAPA, the premier association representing the global attractions industry, has announced a new global partnership with Expression Capital Partners LLP, marking a significant investment in the long-term success, financial health, and innovation capacity of IAAPA members around the world.
As IAAPA's exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner and Platinum Sponsor of all IAAPA Expos, Expression Capital Partners will bring expanded financial expertise, investment resources, and strategic guidance to attraction owners, developers, and operators across all global regions.
Expression Capital Partners - authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority - brings a uniquely deep connection to the leisure and entertainment industry. Unlike traditional private equity firms, most of Expression Capital's founders were born into the entertainment industry, representing generations of building, operating, financing, and innovating within attractions, hospitality, and live entertainment.
"IAAPA is thrilled to welcome Expression Capital Partners as our global private equity and M&A advisory partner," said Jakob Wahl, President and CEO of IAAPA. "Their multigenerational expertise and deep understanding of our industry bring tremendous value to IAAPA members. This partnership opens the door for members to access high-level investment guidance, strategic financial support, and opportunities to bring bold ideas to life. We look forward to working together to strengthen and advance the attractions industry worldwide."
During IAAPA Expo 2025. Elliot Hall, a founding partner at Expression Capital Partners LLP. shared Expression Capital's vision for supporting the global attractions community.
"We are proud to serve as IAAPA's exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner. With decades of experience in the entertainment industry, our team understands this sector in a unique way.
"Whether members are looking to invest, raise capital, bring a new concept to life, or navigate a buy, sell, or merge opportunity, we're here as a trusted resource to support long-term growth across the attractions industry."
How IAAPA Members Will Benefit
Through this global partnership, IAAPA members will gain:
- Direct access to specialized investment expertise from a firm deeply rooted in the attractions and entertainment sectors.
- Support with buying, selling, merging, or raising capital, including guidance through complex transactions.
- Opportunities to explore strategic investments through Entertainment Investments 1 LP and other capital channels.
- Advisory services for emerging concepts, helping visionary ideas evolve into fully funded, operational attractions.
- Stronger global financial connections, enabling companies of all sizes - from start-ups to major operators - to pursue transformative growth.
This collaboration ensures that IAAPA members have a trusted partner ready to help them innovate, expand, and build sustainable futures for their businesses.
www.expressioncapitalpartners.com
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IAAPA, the premier association representing the global attractions industry, has announced a new global partnership with Expression Capital Partners LLP, marking a significant investment in the long-term success, financial health, and innovation capacity of IAAPA members around the world.
As IAAPA's exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner and Platinum Sponsor of all IAAPA Expos, Expression Capital Partners will bring expanded financial expertise, investment resources, and strategic guidance to attraction owners, developers, and operators across all global regions.
Expression Capital Partners - authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority - brings a uniquely deep connection to the leisure and entertainment industry. Unlike traditional private equity firms, most of Expression Capital's founders were born into the entertainment industry, representing generations of building, operating, financing, and innovating within attractions, hospitality, and live entertainment.
"IAAPA is thrilled to welcome Expression Capital Partners as our global private equity and M&A advisory partner," said Jakob Wahl, President and CEO of IAAPA. "Their multigenerational expertise and deep understanding of our industry bring tremendous value to IAAPA members. This partnership opens the door for members to access high-level investment guidance, strategic financial support, and opportunities to bring bold ideas to life. We look forward to working together to strengthen and advance the attractions industry worldwide."
During IAAPA Expo 2025. Elliot Hall, a founding partner at Expression Capital Partners LLP. shared Expression Capital's vision for supporting the global attractions community.
"We are proud to serve as IAAPA's exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner. With decades of experience in the entertainment industry, our team understands this sector in a unique way.
"Whether members are looking to invest, raise capital, bring a new concept to life, or navigate a buy, sell, or merge opportunity, we're here as a trusted resource to support long-term growth across the attractions industry."
How IAAPA Members Will Benefit
Through this global partnership, IAAPA members will gain:
- Direct access to specialized investment expertise from a firm deeply rooted in the attractions and entertainment sectors.
- Support with buying, selling, merging, or raising capital, including guidance through complex transactions.
- Opportunities to explore strategic investments through Entertainment Investments 1 LP and other capital channels.
- Advisory services for emerging concepts, helping visionary ideas evolve into fully funded, operational attractions.
- Stronger global financial connections, enabling companies of all sizes - from start-ups to major operators - to pursue transformative growth.
This collaboration ensures that IAAPA members have a trusted partner ready to help them innovate, expand, and build sustainable futures for their businesses.
www.expressioncapitalpartners.com
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IAAPA Announces Global Partnership with Expression Capital Partners to Support Growth and Investment Across the Attractions Industry
